Mediterranean islands as refugia for elasmobranch and threatened fishes

F Pichot, D Mouillot, JB Juhel… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Aim The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most anthropized seas in the world
but also a marine biodiversity hotspot with many fish species under threat. The main goal of …

Gigantic breeding colonies of a marine fish in the Mediterranean

J Deter, L Ballesta, A Barroil, G Marre, N Faure… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
While breeding colonies are well known in seabirds, they remain exceptional for marine
fishes. Here, we report on fifteen massive breeding colonies of picarels (Spicara smaris), a …

Improving the monitoring of the invasive Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus): combining environmental DNA and citizen observations

E Delrieu-Trottin, M Bianic, C Miaud, M Garcia, V Arnal… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
1. Early detection is a crucial tool for identifying and managing the spread of invasive
species. 2. In this study, we validated a probe-based quantitative polymerase chain reaction …